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Ivanka Trump has decided she can’t hold it any longer and she’ll be coming at us with a shoes collection. From 75 to 100 models with prices ranging from to 0, the shoes will also be accompanied by a handbags collection. Because we’re so worth it!

Now I just have this tiny, honest question from the bottom of my heart: will the Trump name be enough to sell these ordinary-looking, average styled shoes? Because (in the same honest key), if I have to choose, I’ll be definitely getting some Jessica Simpson shoes instead of these Trumps! How about you? (wwd via ccl)

Ivanka Trump’s Shoes Collection

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I know there’s a special place for goth and Twilight-things related nowadays. Still, Violet Darkling’s daring and magical jewelry goes way beyond the shallow of what a trend really is. Wear it today toss it tomorrow, that’s not how I would go with Violet Darkling’s creations!

Pieces of fairy tale, torn from our childhood fantastic time, Violet Darkling’s creations are downright fabulous. Click through to discover more (click here for the gallery)!

Who is Violet Darkling? It’s the artistic alter ego of Louisa Richwhite, a passionate designer of New Zealand with a weakness for mystical and magical things. Her artistic education was perfected in London and also through her work with New Zealand fashion designers Karen Walker and Mala Brajcovic.

There’s little else I would like to add except that Violet Darkling’s first collection – Treasures of Darkling Wood is just as enchanting and gorgeous as I would like any hidden treasure to be. So what say you? Dare to wear the Treasures of Darkling Wood by Violet Darkling? (Violet Darkling via laem)

Dare To Wear Violet Darkling’s Jewelry?

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FRAGRANCE
• Beyoncé is releasing a follow-up to her debut fragrance, Heat. Beyoncé Heat Ultimate Elixir launches this September, and its packaging is just as lubelike as the original. [StyleList]

• Over the last few years, about twenty fresh-smelling fragrances inspired by the color blue have appeared. Leatrice Eiseman, the director of the Pantone Color Institute, explains why: “We do color association studies all the time, and the idea of blue being steadfast and dependable — that never changes. But it also brings up all these ideas of sky and water, and by virtue of there being a certain depth to it, a kind of sexy mysticism. So there’s this dichotomy between associations of both safety and freedom, but they’re both good.” [NYT]

NAILS
• Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant is teaming with nail-polish brand Nailtini on a collection of vintage fabric-inspired lacquers. The line includes brown, gold, platinum, and iridescent shades, and will be available at CVS’ Beauty 360 and Duane Reade’s Look Boutiques this fall. [WWD]

• Butter London is releasing two new nail polishes inspired by Alexander McQueen. “Long Live McQueen” is a glitter-filled gold, and “4Bumster” (named for the designer’s 1996 collection of bum-exposing pants) is a springy yellow shade. [BellaSugar]

HOW-TO
• Bright eyeliner is a fun way to shake up your summer beauty routine, and makeup artist Stephanie Flor offers tips on how to master the look. [Stylecaster]

• Don’t throw out that mascara just yet. Adding a few drops of eye makeup remover to an almost-done tube can sometimes revive it. [BellaSugar]

Filed Under: beauty marks, alexander mcqueen, beauty, beauty news, beyonce, beyonce heat ultimate elixir, butter london, janie bryant, leatrice eiseman, mad men, stephanie flor

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How many high heels shoes have you seen me praise around here? How about sneakers? One-too many, huh? Yeah, well today it’s no different. Maybe. A little. The Torsion Heel by Adidas Y – 3 aims to destroy my love for both high heels shoes and sneakers.

With an unnaturally bizarre looking sneaker-high heel, Adidas hopes to conquer this particularly coveted market section with a little help from Johji Yamamoto. Even though they say they have technology on their side (morphing technology you normally find in athletic shoes into 9cm high heels shoes), I deeply resent the shape and the aesthetics of these…um.. how should we call them? (wait, you think this is all they came up with? Wait till you see what’s waiting for you after the jump!) (Adidas via)

Adidas Y – 3 Torsion Heel By Yohji Yamamoto

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Lourdes is still blogging to promote Madonna’s Macy’s Material Girl Line. “I’m not the designer of the line but my mom and I inspired it and do the styling and the putting together, staying on trend, yadayadayaaaahh,” she confesses. “No but for rizzle, it’s a great line and if you guys like it that that is FABNOSITY.” Further down she discusses boys and writes: “um my brother went to Camden market to go buy shoes or something and came back with a GAS MASK and handcuffs. DON’T ASK.” [Material Girl Collection]

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Filed Under: lourdes is amazing, lourdes leon, macy’s, madonna, material girl, quotables

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Yes, you’ve seen me going strong at men with lipstick. However, when it comes to bags, I’ve made no secret of wanting to wear men handbags. They just suit me better (and the un-glam function I usually attribute to my day bag).

So it comes as no surprise (I hope?) when I’ll say that Dries Van Noten’s men bags just moved up, up in my wish list. The way they were presented makes half the charm of the bag, actually! Recently shown in the Men Fashion Month, the Dries Van Noten men bags fill my heart with joy and sartorial ecstasy. Come, come, tear them down for me, I’ll be so happy to save up (theoretically, hypothetically) time and budget energy and scratch these Dries Van Noten bags out of my wishlist! (photos via)

Dries Van Noten Bags. Men Bags

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Purple editor Olivier Zahm has never been a one-woman kind of guy — a quick look at his magazine or blog could tell you that. The open relationships he favors seems like a fine idea if both people use condoms and are willing to each swing — what Zahm calls an “alternative love lifestyle.” But apparently being in an open relationship doesn’t mean you can’t get dumped for another primary lover and left in the dust, which is just what happened to Zahm. His primary lover, Natacha Ramsay, just broke up with him for one of her secondary lovers, and Zahm blogged about it.

To all the anonymous friends who follow my life on the Purple Diary, I have to tell you that I’m in a lot of pain. Natacha Ramsay dumped me on Sunday. She ran away with her lover (with whom she has had a long romance that I was aware of and accepted) for a summer of love. She called me to tell me that she loves him, that we are finished. I asked her to come back two times and she said no two times. As you know if you follow the Purple Diary I try to create and promote an alternative love lifestyle (that I used to call in French La Communauté des Amants). Natacha’s decision to leave me so brutally and painfully will certainly be seen by conservative people as a clear feminine revenge against the lifestyle Natacha and I used to share, and think that I’m a dreamer. Right now I’m just a mess. But I will hopefully recover soon and offer you some more pictures of love and sex.

We can all learn an important lesson from Zahm’s experience: The bad thing about alternative love lifestyles is that rebounds don’t mean anything. If you could always just whisk away and screw whoever you wanted, and take pictures of them naked and share the alternative love experiences with the world by posting the pictures on your blog while having a steady, just picking one up after the steady flees isn’t novel or exciting. It’s just eh, same old. Anyway, we’ll see how many days it takes Zahm to get back into the swing of things and start posting shots of naked chicks on Purple Diary again.

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Filed Under: alternative love lifestyle, natacha ramsay, olivier zahm, purple

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Something about supermodels and the home interiors business tells me it’s not a coincidence that Iman has her own line of fabrics – Iman Home. In collaboration with P/K Lifestyles, a division of P/Kaufmann (and available this very September in Calico Corners and Calico Home stores), the new fabrics look amazing and sound inviting.

Iman actually was an active part of the creative process, especially with the names:“I had all the fabrics in front of me. Istanbul Sunset reminded me of a Rothko painting, but it also reminded me of Turkey. All of the naming took a day and a lot of Googling. I wanted to find, for instance, where peacocks are from. It’s hard to brainstorm, but once you start going, you get in a groove. I wanted to call the solids Paparazzi, but Lady Gaga already took that, so I went with Glitterati.”

The outcome? 15 decorative fabrics grouped in Urban Eclectic and Modern Glamour: Alexandria Scroll, Alhambra Amour, Assyrian Vine, Deauville Dance, Glitterati, Istambul Sunset, Java Moon, Punjab Peacock, Sultana Lattice, Zebra Oasis. Sounds interesting? (via 1, 2, 3)

Iman Helps You Redecorate Your House

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